Microsoft stock poised for new all-time high

Microsoft is about to party like it's 1999.

Microsoft(MSFT) stock soared as much as 5% in pre-market trading following a strong earnings report on Thursday, setting the company up to hit a new all-time high when the market opens Friday.

The stock topped the $60 mark for the first time after hours, passing Microsoft's previous all-time high of $59.56 set during the peak of the dot com boom in 1999.

Microsoft's sales rose to $22.3 billion last quarter, from $21.7 billion a year earlier, with the success of its cloud computing effort leading the way.

Sales from its cloud division grew 6% to $6.7 billion for the quarter. That growth was fueled in part by the staggering success of Azure, its cloud computing platform, which more than doubled sales year-over-year.